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Project #233 – Pengiun Army

I’ve been talking to friends of Clark who are keen at business about how they started their own companies. The best piece of advice that I’ve gotten is that I should only consider starting a business if it encompasses my passion, and, no, making lots of money doesn’t really count as a passion. It’s a cliche, of course, “Follow your passion”, but they are right. I keep thinking of business ideas that would be profitable, but make me wince when I think about all of the tedious programming I would have to do just to set up a proof of concept.

Still, at the end of my fantasy of building a successful software company, I always sell it for a high price and retire to making and selling little things with my hands. Maybe I should just skip to the fun part at the end.

So, just to see if I could take hours and hours of making little things, I decided to make something big for once and put it up for sale in my etsy shop. I recreated my penguin decoration set from my wedding, but instead of making everything over the course of a few weeks I did it over two days. I think I handled my repetitive task well, but it was only for a few hours at a time.

I don’t think I will be quitting my job anytime soon, but it’s a nice chance to make a little extra money and get some feedback on what I’m working on.